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After Swirling Around a Black Hole, Matter Just Falls Straight In
Universe Today· 6 days agoThe physics surrounding black holes is just plain weird. One of the paper’s authors, Dr. Andrew...
Are stars vanishing into their own black holes? A bizarre binary system says 'yes'
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoScientists have discovered strong evidence that some massive stars end their existence with a...
Churning spacetime and destroyed stars help reveal how fast supermassive black holes spin
SPACE.com· 6 days agoThe "wobbling" remains of a star that suffered a grisly death at the maw of a supermassive black ...
First proof that 'plunging regions' exist around black holes in space
Phys.org· 2 days agoAn international team led by researchers at Oxford University Physics have proved Einstein was correct about a key prediction concerning black holes. Using X-ray data to test Einstein's theory ...
Astronomers measure a supermassive black hole’s spin
Astronomy Magazine· 6 days agoThis pioneering technique makes use of tidal disruption events (TDEs), which occur when a star passes too close to a black hole and is torn apart as a...
Super Earth scientists 'spaghettified' in Dark Fluid research incident: Here's why that's good news...
PC Gamer· 6 hours agoThe bad news is that 12 Super Earth scientists at a Dark Fluid Research Facility were, uh,...
Astronomers Just Calculated The Spin Speed of a Supermassive Black Hole
ScienceAlert via Yahoo News· 6 days agoA feast devoured by a supermassive black hole a billion light-years from Earth has revealed how fast that black hole
Another Win for Einstein – Theory First Proposed in 1915 Is Proved Correct
IJR· 3 days agoMore than a century ago, Albert Einstein theorized that black holes in space would have a region...
Scientists find weird link between a solar mystery and feeding black holes
Space via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe solar dynamo that drives sunspots and solar flares could be located near the surface of the sun...
Black Holes are Firing Beams of Particles, Changing Targets Over Time
Universe Today· 3 days agoBlack holes seem to provide endless fascination to astronomers. Dubbing them “Death Star” black holes, researchers used data from the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...